March marks a significant milestone for me – it's been a whole year since I became the newest addition to the Comma team! From transitioning from a communications practitioner to stepping into the role of an internal communications recruiter, it's been a year of...

As someone who has been made redundant three times, I know what this feels like. For many, it’s a jolt, it’s difficult and it’s a blow, even scary. And worse, if you do not have financial security or a settlement, you will have to rely on your savings and even your...

2024 is a significant one for me. 🎉 10 years since I decided to leave my last in-house Internal Comms role at LV= 🎉 10 years since I swapped beach life in Bournemouth for city life in London 🎉 10 years since I thought I’d give Internal Comms recruitment a try 🎉 25...

So here we are in the foothills of 2024! We are awash with various predictions about the future 12 months which may or may not pan out – a bit like the weather forecast. And, many of you like me will be working on your over-ambitious resolutions to be a better version...

For IC specialists globally, State of the Sector has been 𝗧𝗛𝗘 definitive annual internal communications report for so many years now. Comma Partners is therefore proud to partner with Gallagher – Employee Experience & Communication on State of the Sector 2024!...

Burnout: a state of physical and emotional exhaustion in the workplace, described as a silent productivity killer by the #ICTSD, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development. Burnout was originally coined in 1974 by psychologist, #HerbertFreudenberger...

Organisations don’t have to be homogenous to be efficient. They need to be open and welcoming places. If a company wants to be able to recruit from the widest pool of potential candidates it needs to have good Equity, Diversity & Inclusion practices.  Because it...

There are many career options available to IC (internal communications) professionals these days - employee engagement, change communications, employee experience. But the traditional path from IC specialist to Head of/Director of IC is still very popular.  Comma’s...

Comma Partners’ second career path session for the first quarter of 2023 was aimed at IC (Internal Communication) specialists either considering a move from perm to interim or are new to interim. ‘Despite changes in IR35 rules’, said Comma’s Andy Macleod, ‘interim...